How can I keep my photos synced on my iPod with iTunes?

rOAdeh

rOAdeh

rOAdeh

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Hey all,

I'm travelling at the moment around SE Asia - Currently I use my iPod as an external HDD to dump all my photos (using Explorer not iTunes) on as a backup to my SD card. However, it would be quite cool to be able to show people the photos as I go along..

I synced all my photos (over 4000 so far!) and it took aaages as it optimised them all etc and now when I want to add more photos I tried syncing it. However, it said it was a different library (presumably as I'm in a different place using a different computer despite the files being located phyiscally on the same hard disk) and had to resync the whole thing again. Obviously I don't want to spend hours every time to add new photos as I go along so is there a way I can make iTunes only sync the new photos.. or is there an alternate program that would be able to?

Thanks,

Ben
 
Are you using an external drive?

If you point iTunes to the location of the pictures it should automagically sync any new pictures that are detected in the folder.

For example, if you tell it to sync "Holiday snaps, External HD" and it contains pictures a,b,c. Next time you sync the iPod it will see the new pictures (this case d,e,f) and add them automatically.
 
What you want to do is grab the iTunes library file (or the whole iTunes folder, if that's easier) from the computer you're using and copy it onto the ipod, then, when you come to a different computer, simply rename the iTunes folder on that machine and copy your saved folder into it's place.

When you're done, copy your folder back onto the ipod (either overwriting the existing one or renaming it to keep as a backup) and restore the name of the itunes folder that was originally on the machine.

It's far simpler than I'm making it sound ;)
 
EVH: Yes that's what I did but as soon as I changed computer it would still claim to be a different library and require a full re-sync.

Doug: Thanks, yes that def sounds like a plausible solution.. now I've just got to resync all the photos again and waste lots of time in an internet cafe testing it out!

Cheers,

Ben
 
Hmm, that doesn't seem to have worked.

What I did:

No iTunes on first computer so installed it and then synced my library as normal (well actually only about 3 folders = 10% of the photos as it was taking so long). These all appeared fine on the iPod afterwards. Copied the iTunes folder back onto my iPod.

Next computer, again had no iTunes so installed it, copied folder over - complained about iTunesHelper running so copied over everything except those related to iTunesHelper (figuring they shouldn't affect the validity of my iTunes library file). Tried to sync the photos I'd already copied over plus 1 new folder.. Immediately says that this is a different library and would require an entire new re-sync :/

Any more ideas guys? I notice there's some iTunes related files in My Documets.. would I need them as well potentially?
 
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